The Philosophy Image

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Short Paper #1: The Philosophy Image

     For this assignment, choose a woman philosopher to study from the list below, research her biography via the library or Internet, and select a short, pithy quotation that appeals to you from the text listed beside her name. All the listed works are freely available online in English.

     Using a photo editing app like Paint, superimpose your quotation on an image you think illustrates or amplifies its meaning. Also on the image, reference the philosopher and the title of the text the quotation is from. Save the image as a jpg or png file.

     Using a word processing app like Word and drawing as much as you can on what you have learned so far in this course, describe your image and quotation and explain how they are related, why you chose the philosopher, and how her life and work are interesting or important.

     Save your essay as a docx file and upload it along with your image as separate files to the designated folder by the assigned due date. Your essay should be at least 500 words long and contain no language or typographical errors.

Good essays demonstrate knowledge of:

· The philosopher's biography. Who was she? What is interesting or important about her life, times, and work?

· The quotation's context. What book or other text is the quotation taken from and what is its overall argument, meaning, or purpose?

· Vocabulary and ideas from the first three weeks of this course. What is philosophy? How are your quotation and image philosophical?

· Library or Internet sources and proper MLA formatting and citation techniques. (See the pages linked under Writing Resources in our classroom.)

Key Women Philosophers and their texts:

· Diotima of Mantinea, speech in Plato's Symposium

· Hildegard of Bingen, Scivias  or Ordo Virtutum

· Heloise of Argenteuil, The Letters of Abelard and Heloise

· Elisabeth of Bohemia, Correspondence with Rene Descartes

· Marguerite Porete, The Mirror of Simple Souls

· Anne Conway, The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy

· Margaret Cavendish, Observations upon Experimental Philosophy

· Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition

· Mary Astell,  Some Reflections upon Marriage

· Edith Stein, Finite and Eternal Being

· Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

· Elizabeth (G.E.M.) Anscombe,  Modern Moral Philosophy

· Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged